Dialup is a pain
I have moved house.
Broadband takes its time to catch up: first you need the phone service (”Did you say you wanted it today? We have it down as tomorrow. When you called us..”). Then apparently you need the phone company to believe that the broadband company will pay it. And then to set up your broadband.
Up to a week from now until broadband. I have set the ADSL modem to check every five minutes.
Dialup is evil. Let nobody try to persuade you otherwise.
(It took three attempts to post this, dammit, in the midst of downloading two, three days’ emails.)
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July 6th, 2006 at 2:15 am
Sorry to read of the pain - someone in a newsgroup (from Germany) was commenting on the lack of one of their services where you can choose which DSL service on the fly to use rather than our “locked down” to one ISP setup.
Came by this blog via newsnow.co.uk so expect a few other visitors who wouldn’t otherwise have spotted your site.
July 6th, 2006 at 9:10 am
I use a Vodafone 3G data card for when I can’t get WLAN access or ADSL. Works a treat. 50MB download per month costs approx £20. Only supports PC though. Orange has a similar solution.
July 7th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Charles — have you tried an Onspeed-style accelerated dial-up service? Outfits like Mistral (www.mistral.net) offer the same server-side compression without need for local/client software install. Little more complicated than switching the connection telephone number. Might ease the doddery-dial-up pain over the next few days…
July 7th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I recently lost my entire phone line and it took BT a week to come out and fix it. (That’s after originally quoting 3 weeks!) So, I didn’t even have dial-up to fall back on. The nearest I could get was a bluetooth connection to my mobile, but that was only GSM, not 3G. Every web page took minutes to load, even with all the graphics turned off.
Still, lots of rested bonus in World of Warcraft when I eventually got back on!
Cheers,
- Mike